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Thanks guys! I checked it for any off smell and it smelled fresh and nice still, so I went ahead and cooked it up today - it was just fine :-) Next time I will think ahead and maybe ask a friend for freezer space before I get myself stuck with one in the fridge this long - that's a great idea!

I butchered Monday and wanted to do a weekend turkey dinner today. I put 3 in the freezer but ran out of space and put 1 in the fridge. I was going to cook it today but now I'm worried that's it's been in the fridge too long? What do you think? Is 6 days too long to wait to cook?

What great cooking ideas! Thanks so much. I just caught one of my 14 week old Marans roosters from a straight run and quarantined him. I'm going to experiment ! Thanks :-)

I have only butchered 3 birds - 2 roosters each between 12 and 18 months and one 5 week old duck. The roosters I did expect to be tough. I cooked one long and slow into chicken soup and it was ok. It sat 2 days in fridge after butcher. The next roo sat 3 days and I threw it on the grill. I...

I bought a 1 1/2 year old peacock at a poultry show 3 weeks ago. He has been handled several times (not really happily on his part but at least successfully - lol) but has been quarantined either in a cage in my barn or freely roaming my barn depending on weather and if I have the barn door...

Codymax - Hi back at ya neighbor!! Homeschoolers, survived our last Upstate NY winter, AND chickens - we have a lot in common - lol!

No Chicmom - it's not gross and putrid smelling. My first one had a bit of fecal matter escape during the gutting - that was kind of gross. This one - nothing. Very fresh smelling - lol. Make sure you take away food for long enough. This guy was caught at bedtime Tuesday night and on water...

Just had to share - lol! Last time (my first time) I did not have a cone and tried taking the head off with shears......not recommended This time I had this great cone and I slit the neck on both sides. SO MUCH EASIER and cleaner, and quieter. Still took me over an hour from start to...

I Made rice pudding tonight with leftover rice and Pekin yolks - YUMM! Doing the happy duck-egg dance right with you :-)

OK brine - so soak in salt water basically? Or wine and water?

This was a brown leghorn roo, about a year old. First, when I took the head off, there was only about a 1/2 cup of blood that bled out....is that normal? Seemed like there should have been more. He was upside down within seconds after he stopped thrashing. I tried to butcher upside down but...

Ok looks like it's the Cayuga then! How cool - I incubated last year and only got one live hatch - since we only have one Cayuga, I could never tell the gender. Guess it's a she :-) After I scrub, it does still feel smooth and waxy. The dark color is how they all look upon collection. But...

Hmmm....Interesting. I have gotten eggs from the Ameraucanas (which certainly could be EEs as I bought from a local woman and not from a hatchery). Those 2 started last fall and both lay a turquoise color. I have only gotten a few of those since this laying season started, but no turquoise...

(I wasn't sure if this should go under Egglaying or What Breed is This? - lol) The eggs in question are in the middle and on the lower right. I have gotten 4-5 of these eggs now. They are never in a nest box that is elevated, always either in a ground nest box or just on the ground inside one...

And how do people find you? Do you advertise somewhere? I feel like I'm looking in the wrong places - lol. Thanks for giving your prices - it helps me to realize what to expect on prices. Also thank you for the other suggestions of asking at the cooperative extension or posting on CL myself...

We have laying chickens, ducks, and guineas as pets, but want to raise some meat birds this spring. DH and 2 of the kids are vegetarians and one of those kids has a real problem with me doing the processing here at home, which is a nit daunting for me anyway since I haven't done it and am...

Thanks everyone! I have an egglu that I started with that will be perfect for isolating 2-3 hens of the same breed happily for the month they will need. I'm glad I asked - I had figured a week or 2 - good to know!!

I have a mixed flock with many breeds, but I have roos and hens in several of them. I'd like to dabble in some breeding as I have 2 girls who go broody pretty frequently that I would like to let hatch for me. Right now we have not done any breeding and my flock of 40 all free-range together...

I have 8 SLW chicks. For several weeks, 3 of them are experiencing varying degrees of bareness. One of them is very bad - has an almost completely bare hind end. The skin looms pink too. The other 2 who are affected are not as bad. The rest are feathered in nicely. I cannot see any signs...

No patent - I'm sure he would love to have a knock-off of it in New Zealand!